Mystery people on album sleeves, Elton dressed as a hornet and Leonard Cohen’s favourite song and why

This week’s winning hand from the rock and roll card deck includes …

 

… a silver salute to musicians who don’t dye their hair.

 

… did Al Pacino play Phil Spector? Roger Daltrey as Franz Liszt? Was Gary Oldman Joe Strummer?

 

… rock stars you’d swap lives with.

 

… the “theme-park-ification” of pop music.

 

… the mysteries of rock and roll are slowly evaporating. As Tom Waits said: “before the internet, we used to wonder. I miss the wondering.”

 

… the immortality of the Florida salesman who appears on the cover of Abbey Road (and had obituaries when he died).

 

… why Leonard Cohen thought his romance with Joni Mitchell was “like living with Beethoven”.

 

… how a split-second made and destroyed the lives of two photographers covering Lee Harvey Oswald at the Dallas Police Headquarters.

 

… musicians who look even better older.  

 

… how Pink Floyd helped kick-start rock’s love affair with football.  

 

… the unenviable world of Robbie Williams.  

 

...and is Abba the only act that works as holograms?

 

Plus Led Zeppelin’s Victorian Wiltshire thatcher and birthday guests Mike Sketch and Peter Petyt.

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